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good evening and welcome to bbc news. more than three million british gas customers are facing a big rise in their electricity bills. from september the company will charge 12.5% more for electricity. it means a typical household on a dualfuel tariff will see its annual bill go up by £67. british gas says it s putting up prices for the first time in nearly four years because its own costs have risen. but the government and consumer groups have condemned the move. here s our business editor, simonjack. electricity, a basic need, a simple product. it s the same wherever, or whomever, you buy from. if you buy it from british gas, it will be 12.5% more expensive from september as the uk s largest supplier hiked prices for the first time in four years. given wholesale costs have come down over that period, why raise prices now? we do agree that, over the last few years, since we dropped electricity prices the last time, wholesale costs have indeed fallen by about £36 on a ....
the health secretary jeremy hunt has indicated that a key nhs performance target could be scrapped. he told mps that the guarantee that all hospital a&e patients be seen within four hours might only apply in future to those in need of urgent care and not to those with minor problems. mr hunt said there needed to be an honest discussion with the public about the purpose of a&e departments. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. whatever the intense pressure on the nhs there s a commitment for hospitals to assess or treat almost all patients within four hours of arriving at a&e. but at a time when the service in england is creaking under the strain that s been thrown into doubt. secretary jeremy hunt. the health secretaryjeremy hunt surprised mps by claiming that people going to a&e without good reason were undermining the target. it is clear we need to have an honest discussion with the public about the purpose above stomach with the public about the purpose of a&e d ....
they were dragging me down a landing to a stair well, to get rid of my body. it was only the fact that an off duty nurse was walking past and rang an ambulance that i ended up going to the hospital. and this. and here come the germans now led by their skipper nobby hagel. the greeks led out by their veteran centre half. why do we all think all philosophers are greek or german? should british universities start looking to africa and asia for the meaning of life? good evening. how does a prime minister, swept to power on a brexit vote, consumed in office by brexit negotiations, avoid being defined purely as the brexit pm? today, we got a sense of how much that matters to theresa may, as she spelled out what she intends to make the soul of her premiership: a world where everyday injustices were addressed, where people that had been locked out of political discourse were welcomed back and where politicians who d talked about social justice had failed to deliver. it sounds u ....
of attack that spread for miles. the iraqi army are starting their assault on western mosul, they ve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the islamic state. they re only a couple of kilometres over that way and they know that these men are coming, they re dug in and the assault on western mosul has started. leading the attack, iraq s emergency response division, police special forces. some of these men were surrounded by is two years ago, theyjust escaped with their lives. today they threw everything they had at is. we re now above the village, which is their main target, they re laying down fire and they re about to call in some artillery strikes. but first came the mortars. the captain tells me there are three is fighters in a yellow building down there and car bombs, we re targeting them now. car bomb explosion just gone off, the men were trying to take it out, it seems like they managed to hit it. they set up a whole bunch of. we ....
it is 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in the morning in london, and 4:00am in the morning in mosul, in iraq, following a day where thousands of iraqi government forces have advanced on the city, the opening day of an offensive to recapture the western part from so called islamic state. the first target appears to be mosul‘s airport. is militants are fighting back. our correspondent quentin sommerville is with the iraqi forces. this is his report. just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called islamic state. thousands of men, and hundreds of armoured vehicles, ina line of attack that spread for miles. the iraqi army are starting their assault on western mosul, they ve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the islamic state. they re only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. they re dug in, and the assault on western mosul has started. leading the attack, i ....